12-Letter Words Starting with G

Gadzookery

""An inherited metabolic disorder characterized by the deficiency of an enzyme that is necessary for the metabolism of galactose. The disorder results in elevated levels of galactose in the blood and, if untreated, can lead to mental retardation and eye and liver abnormalities.""

""GALACTOSE A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).""

Galactoside

Loose trousers

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

Gallinipper

Going about seeking pleasure

Gadding about

Galvanical

Potter's Field!

Art of scoring points

Contests + guy + boat

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

GANGLION a group of nerve cells

Ganglioside

Gangsterism

Garishness

Garnishee

Garnishment

The act or process of converting into gas.

GASTIGHT not allowing gas in or out

""Pl. gastrocnemii (-m - ) The largest, most prominent muscle of the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot and bends the knee.""

Gastronomy

One who eats and drinks well

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gastrotrich

Gastrulate

""The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.""

Geanticline

Gegenschein

""GELATINIZE To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t. Gelatinate, v. t.""

Gelatinous

""Pl -schaften (German) [-ʃaftən] (Sociology) (often capital) a social group united by common beliefs, family ties, etc. Compare gesellschaft [German, literally: community]""

Gemmologist

Gendarmerie

Concerned with tracing a tree (wordplay)

Upset college again concerning family history

Tree experts (wordplay)

Inferring that army VIP is in Gateshead

Generality

Generalizer

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Generalship

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

GENERATE to bring into existence

Generosity

Genuflect

Reverential bending of knee

Knee-bending

GEOBOTANIC

Geobotanist

""The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth.""

Of the earth.

In a geological manner.

The magnetism of the earth.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

GEOMETRISE

GEOMETRIZE To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

An earth scientist

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

""Any one of the sciences, such as geology or geochemistry, that deals with the earth.""

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

""The downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; opposed to geanticlinal. geanticlinal.""

Geosyncline

GEOTECHNIC

Decrease in the number of people named Gerald (wordplay)

Germination

Old Age

""GESTICULATE To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.""

Gesticulate

One who gesticulates.

Helps for autobiographers

Silent partners of a sort

Literary stand-ins

Authoring for someone else

Worth setting puzzles produced under assumed name

Like work of unacknowledged author, worth testing out

Having revolting habits means lushes need hosing to be reformed

Gibberellin

Giftedness

GIGANTIC {huge=adj}

Gillyflower

Gingerbread

Overly ornamented.

Rococompany

Cautious; careful.

Pl. gingivectomies Surgical removal of gum tissue.

Plural or third person singular

Gingivitis

Glaciology

Geology () Translations

Of ancient Roman combat

Pleased to get one lariat designed to catch old combatant

GLAMOURIZE

Art of making bottles etc

GLASSINESS The quality of being glassy.

Glassmaking

""Pl. glioblastomas or glioblastomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of the central nervous system, usually occurring in the cerebrum of adults.""

In a glittering manner.

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

Gloominess

GLORIOUS magnificent

Glossiness

Glossolalia

Person associated with (-ist)

Glucokinase

Glucosamine

Glucosidase

Glucuronide

Glutaminase

Glutathione

""A nonbarbiturate sedative and hypnotic drug, C 13 H 15 NO 2 .""

GLYCERINATE

Glycerinate

""The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.""

English word

Any of a group of conjugated proteins having a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

Glycosidase

Goaltending

Godfather

Goldbrick

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

""A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.""

Goniometry

Vegetarian's dessert (wordplay)

Tasty pie filling

Unwelcome visitors for fruit plants

GORMANDISE

Gormandizer

GORMANDIZE To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

Tittle-tattler

Good spoonerism made up about leader of group, a tattler

Gourmandise

Gourmandism

GOURMANDIZE

Gourmandize

From Kennon to Long, in Louisiana.

Indulgent, elegant, courtesy

Gradiometer

Graininess

Granddaddy

English word

Grandiflora

Graniteware

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite [from grano + diorite ]

Granulation

GRANULOCYTE

GRAPHITIZE

Graphology

He will take you by your hand

Handwriting studier

One asking for your hand before getting to know you

GRASPING grasp

In a satisfying manner

Gratuitous

Gratulation

Gravimetry

Gravitation

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Greasiness

""GRECIANIZE To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.""

Greediness

""GREENBACK One of the legal tender notes of the United States; first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.""

Seeing French dicky birds

Ecofriendly fellow cautiously moves birds

GREENISH somewhat green

GREENMAILER greenmail

Greenmail

Greenockite

How some people socialize

GRIEVOUS causing grief

""An antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , administered orally for the treatment of ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails.""

Grisliness

Grittiness

Grogginess

""A pale green, pink, brown, or black garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 , occurring alone or as a constituent of the common garnet.""

Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure

Groundfish

Growliness

Grubbiness

Grumpiness

""A drug, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the form of its sulfate salt in the treatment of hypertension.""

Putting up as security collateral ahead of one bad result

Paper's joint responsibility

Responsibility for safety of daily transport

Mixed a drug in a vessel, as responsibility for ward

""GUESSTIMATE an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.""

Less-than-certain totals

Figures in the ballpark

Ballpark figures

GUILEFUL deceitful

""GUILLOTINE A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.""

Guiltiness

Guitarfish

Gunslinging

Gunsmithing

Young vagabonds

Gutturalism

""One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.""

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

Gynecology

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

Abnormal enlargement of the breasts in a male.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""